New Twitter Events Feature

Twitter Readies New Events Feature

According to Twitter cofounder Evan Williams, the service is poised to reach 1 billion users sometime in the near future. To help it get there, Twitter has been rolling out updates, from its recent redesign to a just-announced events feature.

Find out more about the future of Twitter Events after the break.

Twitter Events will track keywords that automatically associate themselves with certain events. My guess is that they'll start with huge meet-ups like major sports games, music festivals, or awards shows, likely filtered by location.

Twitter's Biz Stone hinted at the new feature in a brief interview but didn't elaborate on its future or a projected date for its launch. It's fitting, though, given the amount of tweets generated by viewers and participants of such major events, especially given Facebook's recent launch of Groups, a new feature aimed to revamp the way Events on Facebook are handled, making any information you receive more relevant.